The Kenton High School class of 1951 met for its 68-year class reunion on Saturday, July 27 at the Plaza Inn in Mount Victory.

With classes set to begin August 19, seven recent area high school graduates are receiving scholarships from the Ohio State University Hardin County Alumni Club Scholarship this fall.

Kenton football players go through drills during their first two-a-day workouts of the summer on Thursday afternoon.

It is soon to be the dog days of summer. Do you need to cool off in the shade? Come stroll through the Shade Garden at the Friendship Gardens. Many interesting plants can be seen there. Have you ever seen a Curly Fries Hosta?

Jerry Andrews believes that God has a plan for him. And that plan brought him through Kenton on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning as Andrews stopped for the night at the Hardin County Fairgrounds to sleep and replenish his supplies during a horseback trek from his home in Cheyenne, Oklahoma to New Haven Connecticut.

The Kenton High School marching band, under the direction of Travis Wissman, works on its “spy show” for the upcoming season during band camp this week. On Friday nights, the band will be performing a set of spy-themed songs including Get Smart, a James Bond medley and the theme from Mission: Impossible.

Kenton OHP FFA member Samantha Unger has had a good year at the Ohio State Fair. On Tuesday, she was named the top showman in the intermediate division of the dairy beef feeder competition.

Hardin Hills Resident Carolyn Norris visits with a member of the Mennonite Choir who came preforms for the residents the fourth Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.

Hardin Hills resident Charles Griffith feeds Hardin Hills facility dog, Trapper, a treat as resident Mary Gurney attentively observes.

Their story was one that took nearly 75 years to be told in detail. And now that story is available for the entire world to see. On Tuesday night at the Kenton Armory, WGTE-TV out of Toledo, presented the first screening of “’A Soldier’s Story: Never Forgotten” a documentary detailing the account of nine Hardin County soldiers that lost their lives during the Battle of Munda in World War II and the effects in had on the community.